San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo News 2018

[TZFan]

New penguin residents at San Diego Zoo

 

[Arizona Docent]

2018 summer night zoo (open until 9pm) runs June 17 - September 3.

 

[betsy]

The Bashor Bridge elevator is now operating.

 

[betsy]

Two Amur leopard cubs were born April 5th. First time mom is Satka and dad is Oskar. They are on exhibit in the Asian Cat area. Mom is doing a great job of keeping them close but they are getting more adventurous every day.

 

[Ann Esther Sprizzo]

Two Amur leopard cubs were born April 5th. First time mom is Satka and dad is Oskar. They are on exhibit in the Asian Cat area. Mom is doing a great job of keeping them close but they are getting more adventurous every day.

I am so excited to hear that. I search almost daily for news on Amur leopards especially the population in US zoos so this is great given Satka is a young first-time mother at only 4 years old. Her lovely sister Liski is in the zoo by me and I am very hopeful that someday soon she will also be a mother.

 

[Rayane]

Does anyone have a species list from the zoo for the summer 2017?
I am listing all my zoo sights but I unfortunately didn’t take any notes this summer so I am trying to check what I saw based on a list and my memory/pictures.

 

[Arizona Docent]

Below is a video of the leopard cubs. I think it's great that the zoo is allowing them access to the exhibit at just a few weeks old. Many zoos wait until cubs are 3-4 months old before they allow them out.

 

[The_UltimateBea]

Are the honey badgers back in Africa rocks?

 

[betsy]

Are the honey badgers back in Africa rocks?

I don't think they will be coming back. A male fossa was in that exhibit yesterday.

 

[The_UltimateBea]

I don't think they will be coming back. A male fossa was in that exhibit yesterday.

Do you know of any plans to place them elwhere?

 

[StoppableSan]

Do you know of any plans to place them elwhere?

One idea I have is that one of the leopard exhibits in Africa Rocks has a concrete foundation installed, making sure that honey badgers aren't able to escape. Besides, it would make more geographic sense then putting them in Madagascar.

 

[betsy]

One idea I have is that one of the leopard exhibits in Africa Rocks has a concrete foundation installed, making sure that honey badgers aren't able to escape. Besides, it would make more geographic sense then putting them in Madagascar.

I talked to one of the people involved in the building of Africa Rocks before it opened. They thought they had designed an escape-proof exhibit for the honey badgers but I guess they were wrong. I believe their exhibit is on the bus route road behind the baboons. That is the only way to see them and it doesn't really give you a good look at them.

 

[14556]

The leopard cubs are both confirmed female.

 

[The_UltimateBea]

There is a habitat for West African Dwarf Crocodile chicks in the turtle section of the reptile walk.

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

There is a habitat for West African Dwarf Crocodile chicks in the turtle section of the reptile walk.

I expect that is a misnomer and babies is meant (allthough links between herps and birds go far back ...).

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I expect that is a misnomer and babies is meant (allthough links between herps and birds go far back ...).

Or hatchling

~Thylo

 

[TZFan]

Revel in Wonder at San Diego's Nighttime Zoo

Also koala, Quincy, has been fitted with a glucose monitor to help manage his diabetes.

Koala with Diabetes at San Diego Zoo Receives Help from New Technology - Times of San Diego

 

[TZFan]

Someone broke into the zoo's gift shop.

Man Scales Fence to San Diego Zoo, Breaks Into Gift Shop

But in better news the zoo's first Baird's Tapir in 30 years has been born. The little male is receiving assisted rearing.

San Diego Zoo Welcomes First Endangered Baird’s Tapir in 30 Years - Times of San Diego

 

[jayjds2]

Following the recent death of the zoo’s pair of brown spider monkeys (old age), the zoo’s troop of lion-tailed macaques has once more gone on exhibit in the old spider monkey exhibit.

 

[Coelacanth18]

Following the recent death of the zoo’s pair of brown spider monkeys (old age), the zoo’s troop of lion-tailed macaques has once more gone on exhibit in the old spider monkey exhibit.

Are there any brown spider monkeys still left in the country? I didn't see any at Philadelphia when I visited a few weeks ago.